LOCALS gathered to celebrate the release of the first 1000 Boomerang Bags into the Noosa community at the Bent Banana on Sunday 19 June.
Boomerang Bags project manager Desire Gralton thanked volunteers, local businesses and community members for helping to “break the plastic bag chain”.
“All these bags were locally made by a great group of volunteers, and today is really about thanking them for their efforts,” Desire said.
“They were made from generous donations of fabrics, they were made for the community, by the community, some sewn at home, some by sewing groups and others through our regular sewing bees at the Boomerang Bag pop up shop in the Junction.
To date, the program has saved 7.5 tonnes of plastic going to landfill with almost 24,000 bags made by 31 Boomerang Bags communities across Australia.
“The problem with plastic is that we use way too much of it, and we use it for the wrong applications. Why would you use a product that is made from a finite resource which never ever breaks down, for items that we use only once and then discard?” Desire said.
“We use eight billion plastic bags per year in Australia alone. And it never, ever goes away.”
Boomerang Bags are now available at the Bent Banana, Peregian Beach, where you can borrow a bag or purchase a special Bent Banana reusable bag.
